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An indigenous nursing cadet looks forward to making a difference in the health of the people of Kalkaringi in the Northern Territory. Ena Tyson is taking up Bachelor of Nursing at the Australian Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Education (ACIKE), ...

The incidence of rickets in Sudanese patients is estimated to be 350 times greater than the national population, new research has found. Refugee children in Australia, particularly those of African descent, are more likely to suffer from a debilitating bone ...

Pregnant women with serious mental illnesses are more likely to experience antenatal and birth complications, researchers have found. Women with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other serious mental illnesses had higher-risk pregnancies, more complicated deliveries and their babies were more likely ...

Australian dialysis patients are not signing up for kidney transplants and the waiting list has shrunk, despite a rise in kidney disease, new research shows. Kidney waiting list guidelines need to be overhauled to address the low number of Australian ...

New agreement provides a three per cent annual pay rise and improvements to allowances and working conditions. Queensland nurses and midwives are to vote on a new workplace agreement after a draft deal was reached with the new LNP government ...

Amanda S. Gossman provides tips on keeping documentation up-to-date. Nurses are talented and intelligent professionals, and our clinical skills, education and personal attributes are admired by many. These attributes need to be demonstrated at all times by our documentation principles. ...

Associate professor Roianne West, of James Cook University, is the first full-time Aboriginal academic in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Nutrition. She spoke to Aileen Macalintal. We understand how gruelling doing a PhD is. How did you brave the ...

Sandy Anderson is a women's health nurse and practice nurse at the Baarlinjan Medical Clinic at Ballarat and District Aboriginal Cooperative. Last year, Sandy was awarded the ASHM/NSW STIPU/GPV Best Practice Nurse Award for Sexual Health for her work in ...

Adelaide researchers have found that emu oil has therapeutic potential, not only for the treatment of various common bowel diseases, but for intestinal damage caused by chemotherapy. New research from the University of Adelaide not only supports emu oil’s claimed ...

Continuing a tradition that began in 1931, the Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital Easter appeal hit a new record. Victorians have dug deep to raise a record breaking $15 million for Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital in their Good Friday Appeal. The ...